stackyFACTSSlime is actually a highly coordinated electrical grid. Colonies of bacteria like Bacillus subtilis use potassium ion channels to fire electrical pulses to one another, much like the neurons in your brain, negotiating when to feed and literally starving the outer layers of the biofilm so the inner microbes can survive a crisis.
Keep exploring facts in this topic.
Science →STACKY FOR IPHONEKeep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.
Humanity spends millions trying to restore Renaissance masterpieces, but to a bacterial biofilm, St. Mark's Basilica is just an all-you-can-eat buffet.…
Discover more
Plants are entirely capable of orchestrating their own bacterial hostage situations. Legumes like soybeans are starved for nitrogen, so they pump out…
Discover moreImagine eating so much metal that you permanently turn your body into a navigational instrument. These brilliant little microbes figured out that aimlessly…
Discover more
If you tossed normal cells into a deep-sea hydrothermal vent, their fat-based membranes would instantly melt like butter in a frying pan. But extreme…
Discover more
The unique tangy flavor of sourdough bread comes entirely from the local microscopic yeast living freely in the baker's immediate surroundings. You are…
Discover more
What invisible, highly unsanitary process happens every time you use a jet hand dryer in a public restroom?
Discover more